Chapter 6
Adverb agreement in the dialects of the Lausberg Area
This paper brings uncharted evidence to the phenomenon of adverb agreement in Italo-Romance. Among southern Italian dialects, manner adverbs are not morphologically distinguished from adjectives and, in certain varieties, may agree with a referring nominal. The patterns of agreement are discussed and analysed by assessing and describing novel data retrieved from the upper southern Italian dialects of north-western Calabria. In these varieties adverbs agree with Undergoer/Patient arguments. The semantic entailments of the adverb agreement in transitive and unaccusative clauses disclose the availability of true and pseudo-resultative predicates. Moreover, agreeing adverbs influence the past participle agreement, which normally displays alternative patterns depending of the morpholexical properties of the participle (± metaphonic).
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Adjectival adverbs
- 2.1Adverbs in southern Italian dialects
- 2.2The dialects of the so-called Lausberg Area
- 2.3Adjectives or adverbs
- 3.Adverb agreement in southern Italian dialects
- 3.1Patterns of adverb agreement
- 3.1.1Transitives
- 3.1.2Unaccusatives
- 3.1.3Unergatives
- 3.2Interim summary
- 4.Notes on resultatives and pseudo-resultatives
- 4.1(Pseudo-)resultatives in SIDs
- 4.2The agreement of (pseudo-)resultatives
- 5.Effects on past participle agreement
- 5.1The general picture
- 5.2Adjectival adverbs affect participle agreement
- 6.Outline of a structural interpretation
- 6.1Adverb placement
- 6.2Adverb and participle agreement
- 7.Concluding remarks
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Acknowledgements
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Notes
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